le concile de Trente, which met at various intervais

between 1545 and 1563, definitively settled the doctrines of the Roman Gatliolic Church after ail the controversies to which the Reformation had given rise. Tient is in the Tyrol.

7. Bacon (1561-1626) : the illustrions author of the Novum Organum and the father of the inductive method. Descartes (1596-1650) : the great French philosopher and matheraatician, whose works {Discours sur la méthode, Méditations inétaphysiques, etc.) mark the beginning of modem philosophy.

28. 10. les Dominicains, so called from their founder, St. Dominic, and eommonly known as Black Friars, became formidable at the time of the Inquisition, which was almost altogether committed to them.

11. les Augustins, so called from the great St. Augustine, formed several monastic fraternities, of which the chief are the Austin Canons and the Austin Friars, who became one of the four orders of mendicants.

33. 3. la révocation de l'édit de Nantes : the edict of Nantes (see note, p. 23 1. 19) was revoked by Louis XIV. in 1685, and 400,000 Huguenots, forming the most enlightened part of the people, were compelled to emigrate to Protestant countries.

15. Claude (1619-1673) : a French Protestant preacher who entered into controversy with Bossuet and published a Défense de la Béformation.